Apr 12, 2014

All the ladies out there
- have you seen the latest advertisement of Special K by Kellogg’s? You see
Deepika Padukone’s slim waistline as she clicks a selfie and your remember your
own. Don’t you?

Approaching the Golden
thirty or the dreaded thirty (read my friend’s Richa’s posts here to know what I
mean), our my metabolism is certainly not as great as it was when we
I sported shorts and tees in college.

I went for my cousin’s
wedding a few months ago and I kept hearing on how I had put on “little” weight.
Now imagine what it would do to my much awaited holidays. This was January. I
realized that I needed to do something about this “extra weight”

Desperate moments call
for Desperate measures. I decided to “Diet” (now, let me clarify that I am a
self-acclaimed foodie) and my version of diet is something like this - If it is
salad, I need cheese dressing and if it is soup I need cream in it. Fries, junk
food, eating out, cheese and chocolates form my daily diet. To shift from these
to something else without compromising on my taste buds was a challenge.

There I was, exasperated
and distressed when I bought a pack of special K. “Two bowls, two weeks and up
to two inches lesser” “Hell yeah! Let us try” I told myself.

My first bowl I noticed,
that it wasn’t all that bad to taste. I mean, one-it is sweet. Therefore, even
without adding sugar or consuming it in Cold milk wasn’t bad. For breakfast, I am
usually inspired to eat something Healthy but for dinner (where the major
challenge lies) it pretty much substitutes main course like an extended
dessert.

Few days of eating and I
was bored and finished with the small pack. Again, despite the lack of motivation
to eat more, I went to the store and kept looking at the box contemplating. The
store keeper came to my rescue and offered me flavored K and with it came a
free advice “eat it with fruits or nuts or add some muesli”

Well! This worked. There
started my routine of eating a bowl of cornflakes and mix it with something or
other for flavor. It is no longer a “diet”, it is alternate diet, and I look forward
to it.

My waistline, well that’s
not to be discussed, I haven’t kept off sweets and savories for a single day.

I think Special K is not
for me because I can’t control the food I eat, but I guess that it is without
doubt a tasty supplement if you plan to “diet”.